Knockshanbally

89 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockshanbally, from 103 m² to 191,982 m² (19.2 ha, 47.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockshanbally in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 2 Jun 2026Conditional

  for construction a of single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new entrance, foul effluent treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2660329

• 23 Dec 2024Refused

  for (A) Construction of a one and a half storey and part single storey type house, (B) Garage/store for domestic use, (C) The installation of an Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment plant with percolation area and (D) New vehicular entrance and driveway and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460669

• 14 Aug 2023Conditional

  of existing telecommunication mast structure and mast mounted satellite communication dishes, antennae and equipment, and for the retention of equipment housings, containers, installations and associated siteworks

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 23200

• 8 Apr 2022Refused

  for the following (a) Erection of Dwelling House (b) Prior to erection of Dwelling House at (a) Temporary installation of cabin as 1. Family Home 2. To provide necessary full time oversight of nascent agricultural enterprise (Agricultural Enterprise is Class 9 Exempt Development) (c) Installation of New Waste Treatment System (d) Entrance from Public Road (e) Associated Works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 22226

• 14 Apr 2020Refused

  for a 39m multi-user lattice structure carrying telecommunications equipment together with associated ground exchange containers enclosed within 2.4m compound fencing with access off an existing track to be extended by 55m. The development is intended to replace the existing permitted eir Mobile structure (Reg Ref 17/484), permission to be conditional on the removal of the existing structure on the completion of works to the proposed. The development will accommodate eir Mobile, Virgin and Three to enable the provision of enhanced mobile and Next Generation broadband services in the area and also provide for future operators as required.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20234

• 24 May 2019Conditional

  is hereby sought for construction of single storey type dwelling with roof space accommodation, domestic garage, entrance, foul effluent treatment system, percolation area, bored well and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19349

• 16 Nov 2018Conditional

  to construct a new forest access road entrance

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18757

• 10 Jan 2018Refused

  for the construction of telecommunications infrastructure comprising of: a 42 metre multi-operator lattice tower with antenna and dishes attached, associated equipment, cabins and cabinets, fencing, use of existing access and access track and extension of access track at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 1813

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockshanbally.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockshanbally.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockshanbally.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Knockshanbally, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockshanbally.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Knockshanbally with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Knockshanbally · Cnoc an tSeanbhaile

Area

1,839,101 m² (183.91 ha, 454.45 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmadum, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Rathcoole, the unit of the census

Census 2022

558 people lived in 174 households in the Rathcoole electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghpook, Knocknaguppoge, Mountnugent Upper, Reevanagh, Tullowbrin, Wildfield, Wildfield

Placenames

Knockshanbally on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.